SJI International Elementary, Singapore, 21st August 2015

Lions and tigers and bears...oh my!

SJI International Elementary, Singapore, 21st August 2015

Prep 1

Dates for your Diary

September 14th-18th – Book Week! Please watch this space for this year's exciting theme

Friday, September 11th (6:00-8:30) - Family Welcome Back BBQ on the Upper Field

September 24th and 25th - Hari Raya Haji Holiday (school closed)

Thursday, October 8th (8:05-8:45)- Exit Point for Amazing Animals! Animal Parade in the ES Hall - parents are welcome to attend!

TBA - Celebration of Learning

Entry Point: Amazing Animals!

The Prep 1 children arrived at school on Tuesday to discover something had been in our room overnight. It was some type of wild creature! Could have been a lion, hippopotamus, or perhaps even a monkey? We searched for clues and used what knowledge we acquired to search for the break-in beast. The case in on-going, and we are all wondering if the offending animal will come back?!

This exercise proved an excellent Entry Point for our Amazing Animals! IPC unit. The scene was set for the children to get super excited about their learning - and we followed up this activity exploring the Singapore map and chose a focus animal to research both in the classroom and on our upcoming trip to the zoo. Please take the opportunity over the weekend to ask your child about their own animal of choice!

In Language Arts we focused on the digraph /ie/ and the Magic 100 words, /said/ and /so/. We began writing non-fiction books about animals in writer's workshop and started a letter-writing campaign to the zoo to find more information out about our research animals. For Mathematics we revised numbers from 1-10 and explored understanding the value of numbers up to 20. We also used our virtue of perseverance to represent numbers from 1 to 20 in writing.

What an exciting week!

Virtues Super Hero Day!

Today was a fun action-packed day full of excitement and wonder as the children celebrated the 'power' of the 'Virtues Project'. Everyone showed off their favorite virtue in the form of a 'Virtues Super Hero!'. Our amazing SJIIES souls showed us that true outstanding abilities come from the heart.

Early Years Assembly in Focus: Prep 1 AKo

The amazing Prep 1 AKo class presented an outstanding performance of 'Tapping Sticks' and 'Mrs. Bunny' at Tuesday's Early Years Assembly. A huge thank you to the parents who were able to attend and support our classroom learning. We look forward to seeing the parents of Prep 1 LMe on Tuesday, August 25th at 1:10 in the ES Hall.